Published: February 23, 2011

Disunion

Mining a New West

In the late 1850s, migrants flooded into the western reaches of the Kansas and Nebraska territories — lured by the hope of easy gold, and motivated further by the financial panic of 1857. This map by the St. Louis firm of Parker & Huyett was typical of the ones used in the Kansas Territory. Click on the icons below for details. Related Article

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